Raymond Hugh Logan (Brother Pius Bernard)
Raymond Hugh Logan (also known as Brother Pius Bernard) was a former member of the De La Salle Brothers. He was born in 1925 and became a trainee Brother in 1943 at the age of 18. After completing his final vows, Raymond Logan taught at the following schools in NSW between 1946 to 1955:
De La Salle Orange;
De La Salle Cootamundra;
De La Salle Katoomba;
De La Salle Dubbo; and
De La Salle Orange.
In Western Australia he taught at the following school between 1956 to 1963:
De La Salle Midland.
In Victoria he taught at the following school in 1963:
St Joseph’s Primary School Malvern.
He finished his career as a De La Salle Brother back in NSW at the following schools, teaching between 1964 to 1967:
De La Salle Bankstown; and
Raymond Logan was dismissed from the De La Salle Brothers in 1968 and became a lay teacher, teaching at Catholic schools such as Christian Brothers College Burwood. He retired from full-time teaching around 1985. He went on teaching religious studies on a casual basis and as a volunteer at various schools around Sydney until the early 1990s.
Allegations and Cover-Up
By 1963, the De La Salle Brothers had received allegations that Brother Pius (Raymond Logan) had being sexually abusing students during his placement at De La Salle College in Midland, Western Australia. The Parish Priest for Midland’s at the time, had informed the De La Salle Brothers headquarter in Sydney, NSW of Brother Pius’ transgressions and warned them that even though his actions had not been reported to the general public, he feared that if it did, it would become a huge public relations and legal problem for the Order in Western Australia. Consequently, Brother Pius was transferred to St Joseph’s Primary School in Malvern, Victoria and was not allowed to return to Western Austalia.
Criminal Trial
In February 2000, Raymond Logan pleaded guilty to multiple counts of indecent assault against three boys. The first victim was a former student at De La Salle College Bankstown in 1965; the second victim was a student at St John’s College Lakemba in 1966 to 1967; and the third victim was a student at another Catholic school in 1975 to 1977 when the abuse was alleged to occurred and when Raymond Logan was working as a lay teacher. Raymond Logan was sentenced Logan to three years jail and was to be served by way of 2 years 3 months periodic weekend detention in prison, after which he would be eligible for parole.
NSW Police during its investigation had seized papers from the headquarters of the De La Salle order in Sydney which showed that his superiors had known that he had been abusing students early in his career but had refused to remove him only until he came to NSW Police’s attention second time around in 1968.
Moody Law has in the past and is still representing clients who have made allegations of sexual and physical abuse against members of the De La Salle Brothers at various schools and institutions around Australia.
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